Theaster Gates wins Germany’s Kurt Schwitters Prize

The Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates has won the 2017 Kurt Schwitters Prize, which will culminate in his first solo museum show in Germany. The international jury for the award said they chose Gates for his “urban projects” in places like Chicago and Kassel and his ability to “activate socio-political energies that can alter entire neighbourhoods”.Gates has yet to start work on the exhibition, due to open at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover in late 2017, but visitors c